{"id":65804,"date":"2025-05-15T15:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65804"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:06:33","slug":"lagos-state-government-restricts-construction-hours-to-reduce-disturbances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/15\/lagos-state-government-restricts-construction-hours-to-reduce-disturbances\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos State Government Restricts Construction Hours to Reduce Disturbances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Lagos State Government has announced new restrictions on construction hours, limiting building activities to between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Oluyinka Olumide, the decision aims to protect the environment, combat building collapses, and promote social well-being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Lagos State Government will enforce compliance with the restriction through relevant agencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The public is encouraged to report any construction activities going on outside the approved hours to the appropriate authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The government cited the need to protect the environment, prevent building collapses, and promote social well-being and wellness as the reasons for the restriction. By limiting construction hours, the government aims to reduce disturbances to residents and ensure a safer and more sustainable construction process .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke The Lagos State Government has announced new restrictions on construction hours, limiting building activities to between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday. According to the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Oluyinka Olumide, the decision aims to protect the environment, combat building collapses, and promote social well-being. The Lagos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65806,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65804\/revisions\/65806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}